Everything That's Wrong About The Atlantic's Prog-Rock Diss

Taste is subjective, obviously, but flawed arguments cannot go unchallenged.by Dave SegalThe book that triggered one of this century's most maddening pieces of music criticism.
In a recent piece in The Atlantic titled “The Whitest Music Ever,” James Parker trashes prog-rock in what is ostensibly a review of David Weigel’s book, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. (Spoiler alert: Weigel likes prog-rock.) From that atrocious and erroneous headline onward, Pa